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Inspiration highlights innovative initiatives and people influencing the tech industry while narrating the tales behind the ideas. It’s a place to honor originality, tenacity, and ground-breaking concepts that encourage others to pursue their dreams and make them a reality.
25 Countries Compared: Does Education Lead to Happiness?
It isn't hard to draw a few basic conclusions. Better education leads to better employment. More employment options leads to...
Tweeners: Why Engadget, Mashable, and HuffPo Shouldn’t Be Called “Blogs”
When AOL bought the Huffington Post for $315 million, I had to chuckle at the news reports calling it a...
By the Numbers: #SXSW
This year, the popular South by Southwest Music and Media Conference in Austin, Texas, returns to celebrate its monumental 25th...
Amazon vs The Tax Man (with Roger Ebert caught in the crossfire)
Whenever a state's tax man steps foot on Amazon's porch, they make a hasty escape out the back door. That's...
From Bits to Yottabytes: Everything You Ever Needed to Know About Data Measurements
We've all heard of bytes, kilobytes, and megabytes for decades. The last couple of decades has put "gigabytes" into our...
Net Neutrality Rules Voted Invalid by House Panel
A Republican-led House subcommittee voted 15-8 to invalidate the FCC’s net neutrality rules. The rules will likely stay in place,...
Three Things The Web Can Learn from Old Media
It has become common wisdom in the tech world that old media represents an obsolete mode of thinking that should...
You’re The Beast Around
Straight outta the 'Things You Probably Don't Care To Know' department comes Mark Zuckerberg's new dog, Beast. Now, you might...
Why Netflix Will Control “Big Telecom” (or die trying)
There are only two viable scenarios that will come to pass in the near future when it comes to home...
Android Activations – Amazing Visualization
You have to hand it to the Android Developers team. They deliver the goods when it comes to news and...
Demand Super-Fast Broadband in the US
An article in the NY Times yesterday really upset me. If you live in the US, it should upset you...
Warlock-Mania: A Roadmap for Fallen Celebrities to Reinvent Themselves
When a celebrity gets arrested multiple times for embarrassing actions, goes to rehab, wrecks his car, loses one of the...
Technology to Art: The Microchip Paintings of Yuri Zupancic
Just try and tell us tech doesn't go hand-in-hand with art (you can't). And while technology shrinks, so too does...
Singing Banner Ads Were Only The Beginning…
If Google has AdSense, let's just call this NonSense. A new advertising campaign for people-what-make-cars Alfo Romeo is (we desperately...
Demand Media Lives On: The Moral of Google’s “Farmer” Algorithm Change
When the Demand Media witch hunt started a few months ago, journalists and bloggers called for action against what they...
Cyberbullying: By the Numbers
The digital age has not necessarily increased the amount of cruelty performed by kids and young adults. It has simply...
Why the Automotive Industry is Shifting to New Media
There is a shift happening in the automotive industry when it comes to marketing from the dealers up to the...
How LASIK Works
One of the most profound medical technologies that has emerged in recent decades is the ability to surgically improve eyesight....
Egyptian Father Names Daughter ‘Facebook’… Yeah, For Real
Talk about gratitude.According to Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram, a twentysomething father has named his newborn daughter 'Facebook' to pay homage to...
Solowheel: What The Segway Should Have Been
The Segway was going to revolutionize the way we travel medium distances. It didn't. Now, there is a new personal...